Category: Business Case
Why Biodiversity May Be More Important to Your Business Than You Realize
Reprinted with permission. Originally featured here. Written by Alexis Gazzo, EY France Climate Change Leader; Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY & Associés In brief Capital could be diverted away from businesses that deplete natural resources or cause adverse biodiversity impacts. Managing ...
Time for Business Unusual: Why Only Just and Regenerative Approaches Will Get Us to Where We Need to Be
As we catch a breath after COP26, it’s clear that the role of businesses in tackling major global challenges must continue to evolve. Dr Sally Uren, Forum for the Future’s CEO, provides an overview of Forum’s new report on business ...
The Business Value of Biodiversity
By Alison Taylor, Chief Sustainability Officer, ADM Biodiversity is integral for economic progress, and private sector actors hold influence and resources that are key to scaling innovative solutions that can help reverse biodiversity decline. As a global leader in the food and agriculture ...
Developing Business Leaders for Sustainability
By Alice Korngold, President & CEO, Korngold Consulting Investors are focusing on companies that are growing long term value by finding innovative solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Companies are recognizing that in order to achieve their greater potential, they must ...
Higher Tides, Greater Risks, New Rewards: The Business Case for Caring About the Coast
By Dr. Alexander Dale, Senior Officer for Sustainability at MIT Solve Why should companies care about coasts affected by climate change? Whether through rising seas, stronger storms, new markets, or risks to our own homes, every business is connected to the coast. ...
A Business Case Your CFO Will Love
By Bob Willard I just released the Sustainability ROI Workbook. It is a self-published, free, open-source Excel workbook with the most comprehensive business case for sustainability so far. My “mission impossible” goal is that by the end of 2018, the global legions ...
Thriving in a Low-Carbon Economy: Look for the Opportunities
By Karen Clarke-Whistler, Chief Environment Officer, TD Bank Group Since the Paris climate talks, terms like the "low-carbon economy" and "carbon pricing" have moved front and centre into boardrooms and business discussions. If countries commit to the goals set out at ...
What’s the Value of Nature?
By Glenn Prickett, Chief External Affairs officer for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Neil Hawkins, Chief Sustainability Officer and Corporate Vice President, The Dow Chemical Company Marshes, mangroves, coral and oyster reefs can help protect people and businesses from destruction caused ...
Saving Water as a Business Imperative
By Justin Bakule, Executive Director, Shared Value Initiative Our water supply is depleting. In the next ten years, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages. And more and more we’re finding that it’s not big technological innovation that will ...
CEF Launches New Marketplace to Help Members Reuse Undervalued Resources
By John Bradburn, General Motors and Kevin O’Donnell, NikeAt General Motors and Nike, we operate with the mindset that waste is merely a resource out of place. We work hard to reduce waste by improving material yields, reusing remaining scrap in ...